Brown's Advanced Laboratory for Instructional Computing

在过去的25年中，计算经历了两次主要的范式转变：从批处理计算到分时计算，从分时计算到个人计算机和工作站计算。接下来将出现第三个范式转变，可能与前两个一样重要——利用三维可视化、可视化编程和多媒体。在这个项目中，布朗大学计划继续在教学和研究中发挥领导作用，站在努力的最前沿，使这一最新的范式对所有人都是可用的和有用的。该计划包括为电子教室配备最新一代具有三维图形和多媒体功能的工作站，开发必要的教育软件，以利用新一代的功能，并将软件及其开发的教育资料输出到其他院校。这项工作是布朗大学过去和现在努力的延续和重要延伸。目前在图形、编程环境和程序可视化方面的研究成果将被用作新工具的基础，将研究软件迁移到教学环境中。课程将得到改进，并在必要时加以修订，以便在入门课程中介绍先进的概念，并在后面的课程中加强这些概念。

Computing has experienced two major paradigm shifts in the past 25 years: from batch computing to time-shared computing and from time-shared computing to personal computer and workstation computing. A third paradigm shift, probably as significant as the first two--the exploitation of three-dimensional visualization, visual programming, and multimedia--will be next.In this project, Brown University plans to continue to exert leadership in teaching and research by being at the forefront of efforts to make this latest paradigm accessible and useful to all. The project involves equipping the electronic classroom with the latest generation of workstations with three-dimensional graphics and multimedia capabilities, developing the necessary educational software to exploit the capabilities of this new generation, and exporting both the software and the educational materials developed with it to other institutions.The work is both a continuation and a significant extension of the past and current efforts at Brown. The current research efforts in graphics, programming environments, and program visualization will be used as a foundation for the new tools, migrating research software into the instructional environment. The curriculum will be upgraded and, where necessary, revised to introduce advanced concepts in the introductory courses and to reinforce these concepts in the latter courses.